For all your talk about privacy and security, you never seem to bother addressing your smartphone being as stock as it was a decade ago, sending telemetry on everything you do, personally identifying you to every service you access on it through phone number verification... quite frankly I would be surprised what company didn't know who you were intimatly sleeping with as you skimmed passed the privacy policy on the sound recorder.The point is, all your work has been completely moot, when you still have a phone number tying your identity to everything, always cross-referencable. If you have been using a default Chromium browser on your Chinse phone to shop for products while using other applications on it, is it really anything more than placebo?I would imagine this is all because a disappointing number of "technology" enthusiasts on this board fail to even have the attention span necessary to gain root access on their device.
Actually, having my information farmed and taken, used to pipe ads to me, is something of a fetish of mine.
>>107062550ultimately, it is all in the hands of God
>>107062550there's an obvious solution to this that most people don't like to accept. but it is what it is
I don't have a phone
>>107062882>>107062894
>>107063044pretty closedon't put anything sensitive on it, and don't bring it to any sensitive placesnot having a phone is certainly the easiest and most complete way to accomplish this, but for many it's a bridge too far. for better or for worse
>demoralization thread #87349Some things never change, do they? Every choice you make is a sacrifice. Nothing will stop them, thus there never was a choice to begin with; and so it follows: if your choice is an illusion, so too is your sacrifice.
>>107062550>Whatsappthe only reason I still have an android spy brick. used exclusively to talk to those too stubborn and/or tech illetarate to use discord (wich I only use through the website/web "app")>Contacts & Aurora storefor whatsapp>KDE Connect & SyncThingfor auto sending media and notifications to PC>Camera & GalleryI am cannot currently afford an actual camera>Clockfor alarms>Audio Recorderfor covertly recording conversations with buisiness "people" and suppliers>My Files & Settingsno sure if removing them would break the device (volume controls, dark mode, connecting to wifi, etc), not eager to try
>>107063209There's quite another type of "choice" that history has shown is rather effective.>ichooseyoupikacuface.exe
>>107063365Same here. Lineage OS without all f-droid apps except for WhatsApp and Banking. Maybe matrix with a WhatsApp bridge or smth could get the job done.
>you never seem to bother addressing your smartphone my what?
>>107062837Kek this.Imagine worrying about man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.
>>107063402>Maybe matrix with a WhatsApp bridge or smth could get the job done.You wish, and so do I; but it relies on whatsapp web, so no calls :/
>>107063519I could just tell my friends that WhatsApp calls just don't work for me, doesn't sound like that big of a deal. For work stuff people don't call you through WhatsApp
>>107062550>turns off wifi>turns off mobile data>disables LTE callingsimple as
>>107063547>I could just tell my friends that WhatsApp calls just don't work for megood luck with that, but it wouldn't for me because it is the main reason people use whatsapp here, the internet calls>For work stuff people don't call you through WhatsAppagain, not here. fucking doctors call through whatsapp...
>>107063656Damn, that's a shame. I remember there was articles about the EU wanting to force interoperability, wonder what happened
>>107063402>Lineage OSYou could use Waydroid on Linux, but they still have no camera support, and they seem to not really care about that fact for some reasonSo yu could install your Whatsapp and banks and all that, but they would be able to access the camera
>>107063716*wouldn't be able
>>107063716At that point I might as well just have a second phone with WhatsApp on a drawer. I access WhatsApp on my linux PC through a webapp. Still it's a must for me to be able to chat through my phone
>>107063753>I access WhatsApp on my linux PC through a webappnot really. You cannot log in without a device running the mobile version>Still it's a must for me to be able to chat through my phonealright, fair enough
>>107063711>EU wanting to force interoperabilityThese impotent cunts? Really? Interoperability with what? With who? Other dogshit mobile-only apps?
>>107062550>sending telemetry on everything you doI don't have google services so this doesn't concern me
>>107062550I only use my phone as a phone (i.e. calling and sending messages to people) and as a GPS.
>>107063788IIRC it was going to be RCS, so any app that also supports RCS.I have no great love for the EU either, but it's innaccurate to say they've never been able to enforce anything open technology stuff.
>>107063897>RCS>not supported on any desktop client>requires SIM>not e2ee-_-
>>107062894How do you run a bank account, use your email, sell things online, order from aliexpress, and get appointments done? How do you talk to friends?
>>107064198>How do you run a bank account, use your email, sell things online, order from aliexpress, and get appointments done?You can easily do this all on a PC. In fact, most of these are more easily done on a PC anyway what the fuck. The "talk to friends" part is the only real advantage phones have.
yes, I use stock iOSyes, I use stock macOSyes, I use Safari and ChromeI have entered the realm of immortality
>>107064425you have entered a gay bar
>>107064445I can enter your bar, if you know what I mean
>>107064570congrats on coming out as a macfag I guess, have fun
>>107063655>Still tracks youNow what.
>>107064609why so shy, come let's hug while watching the Apple event
>>107064649sorry, mom said no going to pride events :(
>>107064198>How do you run a bank account, use your email, sell things online, order from aliexpress, and get appointments done? PC.>How do you talk to friends?Telephone.
>>107064630>living within distance of 3 cellphone towers ngmiIf you live in place where your phone can be triangulated you are beyond institutionalized.
>>107063209>>107064755>build more cell towers near your locationheh, nothing personal kiddo ;)
>>107064829You laugh but that's literally what happened in my area
whatever my next phone will be it'll be one of those phones that support ubuntu touch
>>107065988well yeah, of course I'm laughing. Imagine putting your trust in something that not only you have zero control over, but that also actively against you, lmfao
>>107064198I only have a single friend that I still talk with, and it's always over steam
>>107066590Sounds like your friend is a keeper then
>>107062550I do not own a smartphone. I am an electrical engineer and I intend to produce my own phone hardware and firmware by 2031.
>>107067803godspeed
>>107062550op's hidden talent is drying up every pussy within a 1km radius by simply existing in place
>>107062550When you run GrapheneOS, you realize you don't need root at all.>>107062837>>107063474You fools!
>>107069569When you stop using mass consumption devices, you realize you never needed them in first place
>>107064198Are we actually at the point where people who visit tech forums in their spare time don't even understand what a computer is? Fucking bleak tbqh
>>107071793mossad troll, ignore it
>>107062550i jerk off all over my phone's slutty little screen so i can show it who's really in charge
>>107069569>When you run GrapheneOS, you realize you don't need root at all.yeah sure lemme just buy a pixel lol
>>107064425pape?
>>107062550>bro I installed this curry rom so now all the closed source firmware blobs necessary to even boot the phone in the first place never mind the mobile networking are uh... uh....Great talking with you larping nigger.
>>107073164there you go
>>107073208Thanks!
>>107062560You sick fuck..
